Chairperson, I hereby move without notice:
That the Council -
1) notes that the latest Adcorp Employment Index released yesterday, 11 April 2011, by South Africa's largest diversified employment services company showed that employment grew to its highest level in two years in March;
2) further notes that for the first time in over two and a half years all sectors, occupations and employment types recorded positive growth in employment figures, resulting in employment growth of 5,6% in March with the highest employment growth rates in transport at 18,3%, electricity at 13,6%, agriculture at 11,8%, mining at 11,5%, professional services at 10,8% and machine operator occupations at 10,4%;
3) acknowledges that the growth in employment is a result of the ANC government's declaration of war against poverty and unemployment, especially its declaration of 2011 as the year of job creation through meaningful economic transformation; and
4) takes this opportunity to support the call to rally all resources and strategies to create decent jobs for our people in order to respond to the legacy of entrenched systemic apartheid poverty in South Africa.